Oh boy... The cold season finished rather abruptly in the last two weeks it seems. We had been expecting several weeks of 'transition' - something similar to Spring - where the temperatures slowly creep up, reaching a peak in March or April.
Nope!
The hot weather is here, accompanied by a complete lack of wind, and will probably not go anywhere for 3 or 4 months...
What that means is that the fan in our bedroom is basically useless. No matter what we do (even lying very very still), we are sweating buckets. I hadn't anticipated exactly what that means...
1. Underwear that is CONSTANTLY wet with sweat - I cannot begin to explain just how unpleasant that is!
2. An inability to nap due to the fact that every bit of skin that touches another bit of skin becomes a puddle of sweat in a matter of seconds - behind the knees, between knees, under arms and between arm and core if attempting to sleep in the foetal position; between chin and neck and under the arms if sleeping on one's back - and sleeping in a massive star shape in order to eliminate any kind of skin to skin contact is just plain uncomfortable!! And the mattress and pillow don't help - they seem to be functioning like heaters so that when one leaves the bed, there is a visible sweat print of where one was lying... Yuck. (NB Sleeping in anything more than underwear is just not an option!)
3. A persistent unpleasant underarm odour. Using deodorant is about as helpful as throwing a thimble of water on an Australian bush fire. The only effective solution would be to take a shower every 5 mins and that's just not practical... Doh!!
For someone who has a particular aversion to sweatiness and smelliness, this is, well.... Hard.
May the Lord help me! (And may He give me some rest in spite of everything!)
Happy Sabbath (and thank God that you live in a temperate climate) :-D
Nope!
The hot weather is here, accompanied by a complete lack of wind, and will probably not go anywhere for 3 or 4 months...
What that means is that the fan in our bedroom is basically useless. No matter what we do (even lying very very still), we are sweating buckets. I hadn't anticipated exactly what that means...
1. Underwear that is CONSTANTLY wet with sweat - I cannot begin to explain just how unpleasant that is!
2. An inability to nap due to the fact that every bit of skin that touches another bit of skin becomes a puddle of sweat in a matter of seconds - behind the knees, between knees, under arms and between arm and core if attempting to sleep in the foetal position; between chin and neck and under the arms if sleeping on one's back - and sleeping in a massive star shape in order to eliminate any kind of skin to skin contact is just plain uncomfortable!! And the mattress and pillow don't help - they seem to be functioning like heaters so that when one leaves the bed, there is a visible sweat print of where one was lying... Yuck. (NB Sleeping in anything more than underwear is just not an option!)
3. A persistent unpleasant underarm odour. Using deodorant is about as helpful as throwing a thimble of water on an Australian bush fire. The only effective solution would be to take a shower every 5 mins and that's just not practical... Doh!!
For someone who has a particular aversion to sweatiness and smelliness, this is, well.... Hard.
May the Lord help me! (And may He give me some rest in spite of everything!)
Happy Sabbath (and thank God that you live in a temperate climate) :-D
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